Creating and configuring filters
Create a filter
Alert
The specified filters will only be applied to new emails. Emails that are already in your mailbox are not processed automatically. If you want to apply a rule to existing emails, click Apply to existing emails.
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In the top right corner, click
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Select Rules for processing emails.
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Tap Create rule.
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Under Apply, choose the type of message to apply the filter to:
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Under If, set the filter conditions:
Set up a filter for emails from Yandex Calendar
For the filter to apply to emails about creating, editing, and deleting events in Yandex Calendar regardless of the sender address, specify this condition: Header
"X-Mailer"matchesYandex Calendar.
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You can specify several conditions for one filter. These conditions can be met simultaneously or separately:
- In the If block click Add condition.
- Specify if these conditions must be met simultaneously:
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Under Take the following action, choose what you want to do with the message: delete, mark as read, put in a folder, set a label, forward or send a notification to an address, or respond with a text.
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If necessary, select the Ignore other filters option (see Filter priority).
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Click set name if you would like to name a rule.
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To save the filter, click Create filter.
Test the filter
You can find out which existing email messages match the filter. To do this, open the filter and click the Check filter button.
Change filter
If you want to edit, disable, or delete a filter, go to Rules for processing emails and use the links to the right of the necessary filter.
Filter priority
Filters are applied in the order they are listed on the Rules for processing emails page: the higher the filter is in the list, the higher its priority. If you would like to raise the priority of the rule, drag it up one position. If actions that cannot be completed simultaneously have been set for several filters with the same conditions, only one of these filters will be applied (the one located higher in the list).
Example
Sometimes Alice buys tea on wonderlandtea.com. She receives messages about special offers and her purchase history. Alice wants to opt out of receiving offers while still receiving emails with her purchase history. To do this, she enables two filters:
- Move all messages from
mailer@wonderlandtea.comto “Trash”. - Move all messages from
mailer@wonderlandtea.comcontaining the word “Order” in the subject to “Orders”.
If the first filter is placed above the second one, it will take higher priority, deleting all emails in the process.To keep the emails she needs, Alice places the second filter above the first. As a new email comes to Inbox, Yandex Mail checks if its subject contains the word Order. If it does, it's moved to the Orders folder; if not, it's deleted.
If several filters are applied to one email and you only want one of them to be applied, turn on Don't apply other filters. All filters placed below the filter with the setting will not be executed, but the filters above will.
Example
Alice and the Cheshire Cat are collaborating on a project. Alice's mailbox receives emails from clients, business proposals that must be shared with the Cheshire Cat, and personal messages from the White Rabbit. All business correspondence should be forwarded to the Cheshire Cat, while emails from the White Rabbit should stay in her inbox and get labeled as important. So Alice sets up the filters in this order:
- Label messages from
just.white.rabbit@yandex.ruas important, with Do not apply other rules turned on. - forward all emails to
cheshire.katze@yandex.ru.
If Alice doesn't turn on the Do not apply other filters option for the first filter, then the Cheshire Cat's inbox will start receiving all emails indiscriminately, including those from the Rabbit. Enabling this option lets messages from the White Rabbit stay in the inbox and get properly labeled, while all other messages are forwarded to the Cheshire Cat. When a new email arrives at your inbox, Yandex Mail checks if the From field matches the email address just.white.rabbit@yandex.ru. If there is a match, the email is labeled as important, otherwise it's sent to cheshire.katze@yandex.ru.
A filter doesn't work.
There are a few reasons why this might occur:
Yandex ID doesn't have all your information
- Enter your valid personal details in Yandex ID and link your phone number to your account. It may be that our security system considers your account suspicious and blocked the mailbox. This usually happens if you don't link a phone number to your mailbox or enter a fake name in Yandex ID. It usually takes a couple of hours to have your account unblocked.
Not enough time has passed since configuring the filter
- Wait a few minutes after setting up a message filter, because it might not begin working immediately.
The filtering conditions are specified incorrectly
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Check the properties and parameters.
If sorting emails from Yandex Calendar doesn't work
The From field in Yandex Calendar emails no longer contains the
info@calendar.yandex.comaddress. Sorting based on an exact match with this address won't work. To fix your message filter for Yandex Calendar, replace the old condition with a new one: Header"X-Mailer"**matches **Yandex Calendar. This filter will apply to emails about creating, editing, and deleting events in Yandex Calendar regardless of the sender address.
There are filters with higher priority in the list of filters
- If the list contains filters with the same conditions but a higher priority, or one of the filters with a higher priority has the Ignore other filters option selected, this may affect how the filter is implemented. For more details, please see Rule priority.
Email imported by the mail importer is not in my Inbox
- If you receive an email from another account of yours (meaning you have email importing enabled, and the email isn't in your Inbox), the filters don't apply.
If the filter hasn't started working after a few minutes and changing the settings doesn't help, contact Yandex Mail support using the feedback form at the bottom of the page.
Email messages are deleted or sorted into folders automatically
There are several reasons why emails might be deleted or moved:
This is a filter that deletes or moves email messages
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Make sure there are no mail filters that delete incoming messages or move them to other folders. If this is the case, try to disable them temporarily and see if the emails arrive to the Inbox folder.
If there is a filter that you didn't create, it was probably created automatically. This can happen if you move an email to another folder and click Yes when a pop-up asking "Move messages like this into this folder?" appears.
The sender is listed as a disabled subscription
- Emails are moved to Trash when you disable the subscription that they're associated with using the Manage subscriptions feature. In Settings, select Manage subscriptions, open the Disabled tab, and check if the sender is listed there. If you want the emails from this sender to appear in your Inbox, select the subscription and click Receive emails from this sender.